Counseling and testing for HIV prevention: costs, effects, and cost-effectiveness of more rapid screening tests.
The costs and effectiveness of the currently used counseling and testing procedure for the immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody were compared to a streamlined procedure made possible by new, more rapid screening tests. The rapid procedure was found to be more cost-effective than the current proced...
| Publicado en: | Public Health Reports Vol. 111; pp. 44 - 54 |
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Association of Schools of Public Health
January/February 1996
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